In 1796, George Washington struck six pointed sentences from his Farewell Address. I’d largely forgotten about them—the final ...

Cut out of Washington’s Farewell Address, they’re what we need to read right now. ... In 1796, George Washington struck six pointed sentences from his Farewell Address.

George Washington’s tents, as explained by the museum, have nearly 250 years of history. ... The fragment was likely cut off the dining tent by a man named John Burns, ...

MOUNT VERNON, Va. — George Washington never did cut down the cherry tree, despite the famous story to the contrary, but he did pack away quite a few bottles of the fruit at his Mount Vernon home.

The problem, as the former CNN anchor John Avlon, who wrote an entire book about Washington’s farewell address, told me, is that Trump’s lawyers cut Washington off.

For years, internet users have shared a quote attributed to George Washington, the first president of the United States, reading: "If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may ...